Katie Roiphe Quotes

#1. It's hard to explain how this works, and I admit that it's fairly implausible or untenable as a way of life, but that seems to be how I go about my days: peaceably in person, fiercely on paper.

Katie Roiphe

#2. When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.

Daniel H. Wilson

#3. from CHAOS?

Trust the imagination - lines and shapes revealed - space and light instead of blackness. Silence being tentative, tender life of universe.

Jay Woodman

#4. For us there is little to say. After all, we know that death belongs to life, that it is unavoidable and comes when it wants.

Katie Roiphe

#5. Everything that flickered could be made permanent. That was what drew him to photography, what made every painstaking step worth it: the permanence of the image. That was what fascinated him, the working against time ...

Katie Roiphe

#6. She didn't break his heart, but I feel like a man is supposed to be a man, he ain't supposed to be all involved in that. That's why she got sisters and friend for. Just show up with the ring and act right.

Mike Epps

#7. Facebook is the novel we are all writing

Katie Roiphe

#8. In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

Katie Roiphe

#9. She was monumentally, conspicuously damaged in a way that was, to us then, ineffably chic.

Katie Roiphe

#10. The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time.

George Polya

#11. There's no room for shame here. Shame will be fucked out of you. Do you understand that?

D.H. Sidebottom

#12. A hothouse flower trained to bloom out of season and in the wrong climate. I do not belong.

Karen Levy

#13. Have you ever taken a good look at a public garbage can in Paris, a paving stone in Rio de Janeiro, or a doorway in Dublin? Trust me -- the man or woman responsible for making those utilitarian objects was creating art.

Shawn Coyne